Thursday, 12 September 2024

Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 585 – 20 November 1941


1. Germany.

 

Pictures of the homeland.

 

Greetings from Stuttgart, the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

 

– In the 16th century it became a ducal residence.

 

– Bird's eye view of the city.

 

– Streets.

 

– Castle Square, where most of the architectural and historical monuments are located.

 

– Tower clock.

 

– Ancient cathedral.

 

– Famous natives of the city: storyteller Wilhelm Hauf, philosopher Georg Hegel, engineers Ferdinand Porsche and Gottlieb Daimler.

 

– Thanks to these inventors, the city became one of the centres of the German automotive industry.

 

Harvest in Swabia.

 

– Cart with apples.

 

– Loading apples into wagons.

 

Berlin.

 

– Solemn ceremony in honour of the 75-year anniversary of the composer of operettas Paul Linke.

 

– Jubilee welcomes the Minister of Propaganda Goebbels.

 

– In the Berlin Town Hall, the composer is solemnly awarded a medal.

 

– In the evening, in the premises of the People's Theatre Paul Linke conducts his operetta ‘Frau Luna’ performed by the Berlin Operetta.

 

– Fragments of the performance.

 

– Presentation of flowers to the jubilee.

 

Sending children from the north-western regions of Germany in the south of the country.

 

– Children and women in the carriage.

 

– Landscapes in southern Germany.

 

– Station Semmering.

 

– Arrived children and women at the station.

 

– Children on holiday, on a walk.

 

– Woman with an infant child.

 

Warehouse tobacco.

 

– Its sorting, drying, crushing, etc.

 

– Making cigarettes.

 

– Stuffing machine.

 

– Automatic cigarette packing line.

 

– Warehouse of finished products.

 

– Dispatching it by motor vehicles.

 

Field Marshal Goering awards distinguished pilots Luftwaffe.

 

– The ceremony of awarding.

 

– Goering hands out Iron Crosses, claps a pilot on the shoulder.

 

2. Finnish front.

 

In a break between battles: the commander of the 36th Corps, General of Cavalry Hans Feige awards Finnish soldiers who distinguished themselves in battle with Iron Crosses.

 

– German units in Karelia.

 

– Horse carts riding past the tanks.

 

– After the conquest of Jaanislinna (Petrozavodsk), eastern Karelia is systematically – cleared of Bolsheviks.

 

– Soviet units hide in dense virgin forests.

 

– Tanks in the forest, they break trees on the way.

 

– Shelling of Soviet positions.

 

– Firing guns.

 

– Another fierce fight in the forest.

 

– The Bolsheviks surrender, two soldiers are carrying a wounded man.

 

– German infantrymen in camouflage jackets moving forward, carrying weapons on a drag.

 

3. Near Leningrad.

 

Building a bridge provided with ice-cutters, the movement of the echelon on the bridge.

 

– Wooden structures of the bridge are filled with large cobblestones.

 

– The Germans unloaded stones along the chutes in wagons, carried to the construction site.

 

– Timber storage.

 

– German echelon.

 

– Unloading cows, goats.

 

– Warm winter things that arrived at the front.

 

– Arrival of the car with food, unloading it.

 

– Soviet prisoners at unloading work.

 

– The Germans are settling in winter flats.

 

– A soldier picks up firewood, carries in the dugout, stove.

 

– Soldiers rubbed with snow.

 

– German soldiers dismantle sent woollen clothes.

 

– The German puts on a coat maskhalat, put on his head cap.

 

– Special insulated boots and fur coat for observers and outposts.

 

– Division of scouts on skis.

 

– Detection of the Soviet detachment.

 

– Firefight with Soviet troops.

 

– Fragments of the battle.

 

– Explosions.

 

– They are going to surrender to the Red Army.

 

4. Military operations near Moscow.

 

German Colonel-General Maximilian Weichs, who celebrated his 60th birthday, at the positions.

 

– Weichs’ divisions and corps fought in Poland and the Balkans, on the western front.

 

– Later they helped in the battles near Kiev and Bryansk.

 

– He presents Iron Crosses to distinguished soldiers.

 

– An attack on a Soviet position north of Moscow.

 

– Part of the city is in the outer defence ring.

 

– A machine gunner shooting.

 

– Shooting infantrymen.

 

– They go to surrender Soviet soldiers.

 

– German infantry in the village.

 

– In the morning.

 

– View of Soviet positions and fortifications destroyed by the Germans.

 

– Destroyed equipment.

 

– The corpses of Soviet soldiers, covered with snow.

 

– One hundred kilometres from Moscow.

 

– Field kitchen with hot food for soldiers.

 

– Horses eat.

 

– Germans in camouflage.

 

– On the mud are tanks, other equipment.

 

– Announcer about the ‘indescribable’ state of Russian roads.

 

– Prisoners of war are working on cleaning the roads.

 

– German soldiers, bogging down in the mud.

 

– A soldier trying to pull out of the mud his boot.

 

– Go transports with replenishment and ammunition.

 

– Tanks in the village.

 

– Aerodrome transport aviation.

 

– Loading fuel in barrels in the transport aircraft.

 

– The aircraft takes off into the air, over the window of the cockpit hangs a toy monkey.

 

– He flies low over the German columns.

 

– In the cargo compartment barrels of fuel.

 

5. USSR. Southern section of the front.

 

On the line Krivoy Rog, Dnepropetrovsk, Stalin-Mariupol.

 

– View of Kharkov from the aircraft.

 

– A huge industrial enterprise /apparently, HTZ/.

 

– German aircraft lands in the central square of Kharkov at the building Gosprom, etc.

 

– The miserable dwellings of workers and the poor against the background of administrative colossi.

 

– Preparation of the next issue of the front newspaper ‘Ost-front’.

 

– Handing out the finished issue of the soldiers.

 

– Caricature of Stalin.

 

– The population buys in a kiosk anti-Soviet newspaper ‘The Voice of Poltava’, the number in the hands of the reader.

 

– Blown up railway bridge over the Dnieper.

 

– The grand opening of a new bridge, built by German sappers.

 

– On the bridge are trains.

 

– View of the bridge.

 

– Column of Soviet prisoners.

 

– A separate column of ‘identified’ Jews.

 

– View of the column from the air.

 

– Faces of soldiers.

 

– Typical Jewish faces.

 

– Landing German infantry on a barge on the Dnieper.

 

– Soldiers with weapons on the barge.

 

– Disembarkation of soldiers.

 

– Sending the German wounded to the rear on a barge, comrades give them a smoke.

 

6. USSR. Fighting in the Crimea.

 

German cyclists on the road leading to Simferopol.

 

– The defeat of the Soviet factory, turned by Soviet troops into a fortress and taken by storm by the Germans.

 

– The passage of the camera on the ruins of the factory.

 

– View of the destroyed Soviet armoured train.

 

– German anti-aircraft gunners are firing at Soviet aircraft.

 

– One aircraft falls down.

 

– Its burning remains.

 

7. Romania. 8 November in Bucharest is a victory parade.

 

On the steps of the royal palace in Victoria Square King Mihai I, Marshal Ion Antonescu, Queen Mother Helen.

 

– King Mihai I attaches awards to the banners of the units that distinguished themselves in the battles for Odessa.

 

– The parade is attended by German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.

 

– Rewarding officers, whom the king ordains knights of the Order of Mihai the Brave.

 

– Awards ceremony.

 

– Parade of winners.

 

– Under the Arc de Triomphe are Romanian troops who won the victory over Odessa, led by General Joseph Iacobich.

 

– Solemn passage of infantrymen, the passage of equipment.

 

– Defiles German group of troops stationed in Bucharest, led by General Arthur Hauffe.

 

8. Africa.

 

General Rommel bypasses the ranks of soldiers, awarded distinguished in battle.

 

– Preparation of a festive dinner.

 

– A soldier carries a plate of food.

 

– Soldiers eat.

 

– A soldier in a protective net from insects.

 

– Soldiers bring an awning to protect the table from the invasion of pesky flies.

 

– The feast continues.

 

– Chronicle cameraman in a protective net, covered with flies.

 

– A soldier writes a letter in a protective net.

 

– Flies walk around the letter.

 

At the front of the Sallum.

 

– Tank attack.

 

– Tanks are going through the desert.

 

– Shelling of enemy positions.

 

– Shooting guns.

 

– Rommel observes the course of the battle.

 

– Fragments of shelling.

 

– Tanks returning after a successful operation.

 

– Tanks in the desert.

 

– Burning and hit British tanks.

 

9. The English Channel.

 

German ships patrolling at sea.

 

– Sailor observers with binoculars.

 

– German aircraft escort.

 

– German caravan continues patrolling.

 

– German aircraft on the airfield.

 

– The pilot sits in the cockpit.

 

– Planes take off.

 

– The aircraft over the strait.

 

– View of the English coast.

 

– Shelling English aircraft.

 

– Bombing English ship.

 

– Explosions.

 

– Bombs.

 

– Burning ships.

 

– Shelling of ships from machine guns.

 

– Burning and sinking ship.

 

– The pilot transmits a message to the submariners.

 

– Another ship is sinking.

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